do cigarettes kill you hello no no indonesia is being massacred by cigarettes adi Elam first lit up when he was four now smokes 25 cigarettes a day and it's all perfectly legal making love with your wife or smoking cigarettes which one would you give up 70% of men are smokers huffing 13 cigarettes a day on average they're the second leading risk factor for death with an estimated 300,000 people dying every year due to tobacco use but why do over 78 million Indonesians smoke and how did the Marlboro man conquer this country i pulled up to the capital of Jakarta with my translator John Ward to find out now we are at the biggest cancer hospital in Jakarta yeah the name is Dharm we're wondering how many packs of cigarettes do you smoke a day five to six packs per day for one day he said only one pack in one day one pack a day for the last 40 plus years luigi what age did you start smoking 17 okay not bad does he have any health concerns for the amount of smoking he does do you have any breathing problems or lung conditions do you think you'll ever stop smoking the photos they put on them make him nervous when he smokes does he have any health concerns given that he smokes a pack a day no problem okay do you think cigarettes are good for your health are you concerned for your health if you continue to smoke or no are you addicted have you ever tried to quit it's too hard does your family worry for your health do you think it's bad for your health or good for your health why do so many men in Indonesia smoke cigarettes so much stress relief anxiety stress yeah for relaxation for happiness feels good um you have to smoke cigarettes to be seen as masculine and strong and what was the reason to start do you still feel like the nicotine high or do you just smoke not to feel bad you're witnessing a connoisseur a master at work here is there any history of lung cancer he said he has no lung cancer okay has he had any health complications due to smoking in his lifetime and does he have any lung issues so he neutralizes the effects of the cigarette with the warm water and does he know anyone who's died due to lung cancer or does he plan to stop anytime soon given that his neighbor died while some of the smokers were in outright denial as to the health consequences of smoking financially I wanted to know what percentage of his income goes towards cigarette smoking so 35% of his income goes towards cigarettes and while an average pack of cigarettes might cost anywhere from $1.50 to $3 the average income per day here in the city is $12 to $15 and according to the NIH household cigarette consumption has a negative impact on households daily energy and protein intakes in simple terms people are so addicted to Sigs they're prioritizing buying a pack over feeding their families they said that at that time he can spend half of his income 50% that's a lot that must have been expensive do you think that's too much oh yeah he's going to light one up for us show us how it's done maybe one of the last cigarettes before Ramadan a little wink and what percentage of your income is that and given that 87% of Indonesia is Muslim the consumption of alcohol here is haram or forbidden but given that tobacco is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran or hadith it appears that cigarettes here have become the deacto vice used to relieve stress in this majority Muslim country okay is smoking haram smoking no haram macro haram no haram macro he said that macro is the Islamic law that it you can uh smoke but it is better you don't smoke because God will give you bonus when you don't smoke okay god gives you bonus if you're not a smoker so you're missing out on the bonus right now you need to work towards the bonus but how hard is it to quit once you get started do you ever think you'll quit smoking if the doctor said you'll die in one year if you don't stop smoking would you quit he lives or dies by the cigarette if God strikes him down tomorrow it is God's will can you ask him if he'll ever quit he he quit to smoke okay but now he has no problem with the gun and then he starts smoking back if you had to give up your ability to have sex with woman to continue smoking would you proper and um what's one word that comes to mind when he thinks of a cigarette oh yes if he made double the income would he smoke two times as much he said that okay good man what amount of money would I have to give you to quit right now for the rest of your life he won't quit he can't quit why not they're young men have you ever smoked the cigarettes okay they do have the hole in the neck advertising all smoking is cancerous this is terrible for you kids do not smoke roughly three out of every four men out here are smoking cigarettes none of them have concerns for their health why is that they think that a smoke can release can heal their stress the guy said that most people in Jakarta Indonesia they smoke because the stress in the office and with their daily life i see so to release the stress they smoke one guy said five packs a day it's a lot of cigarettes do most of these people end up going and seeing a doctor and they end up getting lung cancer is is it common to get lung cancer out here when they go to the doctor they will become stressed more stress because the doctor will say "Sir you have cancer." Wow more stress i see so they prefer cigarettes 5 ft away boom 10 other people smoking cigarettes it is everywhere out here you cannot avoid it why did you quit because if you were to double your income next month would you smoke more cigarettes man work to smoke smoke to work what a cycle seems like a pretty damning cycle of despair and lung cancer and a little bit of nicotine high and relief temporarily and even if you're not a smoker yourself you will face the health consequences of smoking with an estimated 97 million Indonesians exposed to secondhand smoke daily including 43 million children more than half of adult workers are exposed at their workplace 85% of people exposed in restaurants and 70% of people in public transportation you cannot escape the damage cigarette causes out here said that marijuana um marijuana marijuana is not yeah not here not here i mean because of marijuana caused his teeth loss interesting okay maybe a little bit of denial but uh fair enough thank you so we have smoker smoker smoker smoker hi it is harder to find a non-smoker than a smoker out here coffee cigarettes so that's a cigarette brand right there ask them if I can buy a single cigarettes massi pulling one out for me ah how much one only 30,000 no no no 3,000 okay and how many are in a pack 27,000 okay i see okay so I just bought a single cigarette for 20 cents almost i don't know if that's a good or bad deal imagine you are so damn bad on your last dime you go and buy a single cigarette you can't afford a full pack that is addiction we'll keep this for now for scientific purposes sigs sigs cigarette right here right cigarette right here right this will be a tough place to avoid secondhand smoke no doubt smoking bad but especially if you're a woman out here in Indonesia yes because uh smoking can cause the problem with the pregnancy i see while nearly every dude out here had a cigarette I wanted to hear from the elusive 3 to 5% of women who do smoke out here but real quick 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have a case in minutes thanks Morgan and Morgan back to Indonesia female smoker is a rare unicorn out here i'm sure they exist perhaps behind closed doors cigarette box right there lighter right here it's so deeply ingrained in the culture it's inseparable we're really doing a full backtrack right now looking for the elusive female smoker we got smokers everywhere we have a vapor right here we're trying to find a female smoker okay we've noticed it's extremely hard to find a female smoker in Indonesia why do so few women smoke she said that it's not it's not hard to find females oh it's not hard yeah what what is the stigma for a woman who smokes like I told you do you think that's fair yeah do you want to hit a hit a vape no because I hide it from my mom if I smoke she will watch she's up she's up with her mom okay yeah we just filmed for an hour came back everyone's still smoking bye-bye see you bye-bye same guys okay now be honest with me are you going to spend that on cigarettes the man while he pushed the cart he's doing some cardio while he hits the smoke we made it to the bus stop if you look over here all the drivers are taking their smoke break what age did you start smoking 14 15 years old he start to smoke i see how many packs a day does he know anyone who's died due to lung cancer or messtheloma or skin cancer or that sort of thing do you think you'll ever quit smoke over there smoke over there smoker smoker smoker smoker right there combine all the smog with the smokes it's pretty deadly out here what percentage of your income goes towards cigarettes if you have to get rid of one thing making love with your wife or smoking cigarettes which one would you give up he's thinking okay he would give up sex to continue smoking did he buy that cigarette individually when he has money he will buy one packole when he has no money only one one cigarette okay do you think it's good for your health or bad for your health okay that is his last cigarette he will cherish it at a certain point is the stress created by not having the cigarette in the first place it's a sort of chicken or the egg scenario in which you become stress without the cigarette yet you use the cigarette to relieve the stress becomes an infinite cyclical loop where one causes the other and the other causes the other yes I agree because uh for some one smoker when they uh smoke they can release stress but with smoke they can create another problem one thing I am happy about though you may see a ton of people smoking cigarettes you don't see a ton of fentanyl addicts bent over dying in real time on the streets cigarettes oh look look look look big boy right here super premium look at those photos too jeez we're We're going to have to pixelate these for the YouTube video this is a brutal imagery i'd be smoking like a dog out here unfortunately you become a victim of your environment out here and everyone here is adapting to the environment which loves to smoke you got everyone in their mothers smoking right now 5:00 rush hour long day after work open the pack take a hit smoke some sigs relieve the stress there's crazy traffic it's loud it's hot i can imagine a sig would be quite relieving right now in fact last week I tried my first cigarette after the Papu and Jungle let me tell you it felt good it really did i hate to say it and I get why people smoke while cigarettes are everywhere in big cities like Jakarta slowly killing their loyal addicts they have an even more complicated relationship in the countryside of places like East Java where major cigarette manufacturers like Gudang Garam and PT Samperna produce Indonesia's beloved Cretek cigarettes that dominate 95% of the market behind me is the Sarano factory this is where they make the famous Cretex the cigarettes everyone here loves to smoke just to show the sheer quantity we got cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes i saw a Marlboro branded cigarette bird cage we're headed to a tobacco processing plant as we speak i'm going to try to speak to some farmers maybe the boss see how much these farmers are actually making and witness the processing in person hi question for you uh rice here is tobacco oh tobacco can I um Okay we found tobacco i'm going say if you can show me a tobacco farmer right now I'll give you 100,000 more rupees i need you to guide me there while we drive in car behind ah I think he's going to come real quick i'd be like go on down the road you [ __ ] if you want to support our boots on the ground independent journalism that is not bought and paid for by corporate interests along with exclusive DLC content that YouTube won't let me upload and uncensored early access to all my videos before they go up on YouTube go subscribe at patreon.com/tylera for less than five bucks a month he's in the car now we're going to follow him he's going to tell our driver where to go we're going to meet some farmers i presume he knows people in the area we're about to find out and look to your left it is not officially dry season it is rainy season so they're growing other crop alternatives meanwhile I see we're going to meet some farmers right now i hope he's cool with us coming in barging in like this hello is tobacco farming profitable do you ever lose money farming tobacco okay have you ever gotten sick from the nicotine while farming tobacco do you own this farm oh tobacco he showed me tobacco oh we have tobacco okay there it is and he is rolling a cigarette right now and look to his left he has a cigarette rolling this is the culture out here it's not tobacco farming season but everyone's got a bag of tobacco out here it seems and he just rolled his own cigarettes and now he will smoke oh Tamakasi um can you roll one for me can you roll one for me one for me okay oh for for me we got our own bag of tobacco can you can you roll me one okay this is terrible for your health do not smoke kids but I got to try one of these while my new friend rolls my cigarette how much do the farm hands make working on these tobacco farms how is work as a tobacco farmer during the tobacco season is it difficult or easy okay okay okay okay okay yeah yeah okay okay okay how much do you make as a tobacco farmer during the tobacco season each day does basically everyone here work in the tobacco farms during the tobacco season yeah everyone does the work pay well or do they keep you poor okay so it pays well does it pay more than the other crops you could help grow that guy's in the water smoking a cigarette right now they're building a wall but when tobacco is back in season they will all be helping grow it they said they make good money out here growing tobacco and basically two times as much as the other crops and people here in the countryside seem to be in more denial regarding the negative health consequences of this cash crop that fuels their local economy out here do cigarettes kill you no you don't know no do you think smoking is good for your health or bad for your health microphone they thought that was a vape for surely are cigarettes good for your health okay food for your health or bad bagus bagus okay bagos bagus bagos bagus okay bagus bagus what we've learned is a lot of people don't think cigarettes are bad for them and those people just so happen to be involved in the tobacco farming industry if you were a lung doctor you'd never have time off out here are cigarettes good for your health or bad for your health okay okay okay masi and then the farmer who gave me tobacco brought me out back to show how the tobacco is grown and cut we found tobacco okay so this is the tobacco plant right here he's pulling out the machine for us wow so this is a tobacco cutting machine we're going to take this tobacco and cut it right now to show the process they get this tall how long will that take 40 days about 2 months it'll be this tall he says tobacco makes three times the income of other crops wow okay that's a lot of money our boy here has folded us a nice tobacco leaf i got to ask him do you love a good cigarette do you ever worry about your health given the amount of exposure you have to nicotine and tobacco plants do you think tobacco is good for your health and there it is the freshly cut oh dang all natural local cigarette while countries like the United States don't smoke nearly as much we struggle with our own opioid epidemic with drugs like fentanyl zombifying Americans in every major city but Indonesia seems to handle the stress and difficulty of life in their own problematic and deadly way and through a combination of unique cultural religious and economic factors cigarettes have become king here hopefully one day that might